SŌGI

(1421–1502)

EVERYONE’S journey

through this world is the same,

so I won’t complain.

Here on the plains of Nasu,

I place my trust in the dew.

[S.H.]

To each thing, its own

true deepest inner nature:

water does not think

of itself as consort

of the bright moonlight it hosts.

[S.H.]